Soaking In It

 You know that the government might have to shut down.

You were aware of this. Less than two weeks away from running out of time and money, a deadline that was known well in advance, the United States Congress has been busy with other things aside from keeping the doors open and the lights on. Back in 2019, a similar game of chicken ended up costing the country approximately three billion dollars. 

All because working together to resolve disputes was less important than pointing fingers and calling names. 

Four years later, as the deadline approaches, we find our elected officials arguing about conduct in theaters and playing catchup on the impeachment front. 

And all of this is coming essentially from one party. The party that holds the majority in the House of Representatives. The party that is currently holding their own House Speaker hostage to their lunatic demands. Rather than pressing on with their agenda to Make America Some Sort Of Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland (MASSOPAW), Matt Gaetz and his funHouse pals are doing everything they can to make life difficult for the titular leader of their party. The same doddering pinheads who have been holding up Department of Defense appropriations want to get their fingerprints all over the government funding bill that would keep the government up and running past September 30. 

Never mind that this kind of grandstanding hurts all sorts of people outside the halls of the Capitol, but since the members of Congress are considered "essential personnell" they will continue to get paid. For doing much the same nonsense that they have been doing for months leading up to the cliff off which we are about to plunge.

Again. 

Sorry. Not very funny or salacious. Just bad behavior from a group that seems to be steeped in it.